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Qualitative research interviewing : biographical narrative and semi-structured methods

Provides a comprehensive resource for those concerned with the practice of semi-structured interviewing, the most commonly used interview approach in social research, and in particular for in-depth, biographic narrative interviewing.
eBook, English, 2001
SAGE, Thousand Oaks, Calif., 2001
1 online resource (xxiv, 398 pages)
9781446205846, 1446205843
825768173
PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES TO DEPTH INTERVIEWING; Interview `Facts' as Evidence to Support Inferences to Eventual Theorization/Representation Models; Conceptual Frameworks for Studying and Inferring from (Research) Interview Interaction Practice; Models of Research Design and Their Application to Semi-Structured Depth Interviewing; Lightly and Heavily-Structured Depth Interviewing; Theory-Questions and Interviewer-Questions; PART TWO: UP TO THE INERVIEW: STRATEGIES FOR GETTING THE RIGHT MATERIALS; Preparing for Any Interviewing Sequence; Preparing Lightly-Structured Depth Interviews; A Design for a BNIM-Type Biographic-Narrative Interview; Preparing Moderately- or Heavily-Structured Interviews; PART THREE: AROUND THE INTERVIEW: CONTACT MANAGEMENT-THEORY AND PRACTICE; Before Making Contact and Starting the Fieldwork Phase of the Research Process; The Session; PART FOUR: AFTER THE INTERVIEW: STRATEGIES FOR WORKING THE MATERIALS; Copying, Indexing and Transcribing; Analyzing/Interpreting Any Interview Materials; Answers to TQs; Analyzing/Interpreting SQUIN-BNIM Interview Materials; Answers to TQs; PART FIVE: COMPARISON OF CASES: FROM CONTINGENCIES OF CASES TO TYPES OF TYPOLOGIES; Resources for Typification and General-Models within Single-Case Research; Types of Typologies; PART SIX: WRITING UP: STRATEGIES OF RE/PRESENTATION; Conceptual Frameworks for Studying and Re/presenting; Writings Up: Theorizing and Narrating in `Presentation' Strategies; `Writing Up' Biographic Sub-Genres; Suggestions by Way of a Conclusion